Notable British classical music composers of the 19th and 20th centuries and their major works include Edward Elgar, famous for Pomp and Circumstance and The Enigma Variations, Ralph Vaughan Williams, The Lark Ascending and Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis and   Benjamin Britten, whose opera Peter Grimes and The War Requiem are iconic.

Other significant composers include Gustav Holst, famous for The Planets; William Walton,  Belshazzar's Feast; Michael Tippett, A Child of Our Time; and Sir Arthur Bliss, A Colour Symphony and contemporaries Arnold Bax, Herbert Howells, Frank Bridge and Edmund Rubbra 

These composers shaped British classical music with their unique contributions, blending traditional and modern styles. Works by all these composers are comprehensively available  in superb recordings on the Lyrita  record label.